October 2006

By David Swanson

What if there were Republicans in Congress who supported forced abortions and prostitution and slave labor? And what if there were progressive Democrats running against them? Meet Republican Congress Members John Doolittle and Richard Pombo and their challengers in California’s 4th and 11th districts Charlie Brown http://www.charliebrownforcongress.org and Jerry McNerney http://www.jerrymcnerney.org .

Now visit the beautiful tropical islands described by disgraced House read more

Glen Ford, who for years edited the brilliant and informative BlackCommentator.com, has now launched a new publication: The Black Agenda Report. Already the Black Agenda Report is becoming an invaluable resource for progressives and activists. The cover story in the November 8th issue has a working headline of “Impeach! Impeach! Impeach!” We can expect the same insight and experience to be brought to that issue that was brought to so read more

By David Swanson

White House political head honcho Karl Rove was interviewed by National Public Radio yesterday. He effectively announced plans to steal the coming elections. The polls point decisively to a Democratic majority in the House, and possibly in the Senate. Yet Rove told NPR he was certain of Republican majorities in both houses, and gave laughable reasons for his claim. Rove had no actual evidence to point to.

Now, this could be seen as the obsessive lying of a political hack, read more

Talk Nation Radio for Thursday October 26, 2006

David Swanson of Progressive Democrats of America joins for a discussion about how to get ready for election day. Can you volunteer? What web sites are best for monitoring the vote? Where to get your news? And what issues must we know about?

David Swanson has been updating web pages and getting information out about the candidates and the issues. He touches on the most important topics and takes a few chances on guessing what October Surprise might read more

By David Swanson

The evidence that Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld lied us into a war is overwhelming but also dry and dense. But imagine seeing it presented coherently and systematically in a dramatic performance full of humor and emotion. That is the gift that playwrite Craig Barnes has given us in “A Nation Deceived.” The script is available now at http://www.anationdeceived.org and Barnes encourages read more

–AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl

–AZ-01: Rick Renzi

–AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth

–CA-04: John Doolittle

–CA-11: Richard Pombo

–CA-50: Brian Bilbray

–CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave

–CO-05: Doug Lamborn

–CO-07: Rick O’Donnell

–CT-04: Christopher Shays

–FL-13: Vernon Buchanan

–FL-16: Joe Negron

–FL-22: Clay Shaw

–ID-01: Bill Sali

–IL-06: Peter Roskam

–IL-10: Mark Kirk

–IL-14: Dennis Hastert

–IN-02: Chris Chocola

–IN-08: John read more

Donald Rumsfeld and Saddam Hussein:
Partners in Crimes Against Humanity
By David Swanson

The White House has arranged to announce two days before the November 7, 2006, elections a guilty verdict for Saddam Hussein and, no doubt, plans to finally murder him. Meanwhile an appeals process is delaying until at least five days after the elections release of photos of members of the U.S. military and its contractors raping and murdering children and adults at Abu Ghraib.

While use of the death penalty read more

By Richard Dawkins, www.huffingtonpost.com

America, founded in secularism as a beacon of eighteenth century enlightenment, is becoming the victim of religious politics, a circumstance that would have horrified the Founding Fathers. The political ascendancy today values embryonic cells over adult people. It obsesses about gay marriage, ahead of genuinely important issues that actually make a difference to the world. It gains crucial electoral support from a religious constituency whose grip on read more

ImpeachPAC, a federal PAC funding pro-impeachment candidates for Congress, has announced additional endorsements, including: James Wright, Democratic nominee in the Eighth District of Texas; Stacey Tallitsch, Democratic nominee in Louisiana’s First District; Danny Stover, Democratic nominee in Illinois’ 19th; Bill Glass, Democratic and Green nominee in North Carolina’s Ninth; Steve Young, Democratic nominee in the 48th District of California; John Laesch, Democratic nominee in read more